J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Venice, Austria and Southern Germany ... > Grand Canal and Giudecca Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Band of Colour Wash 1840

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Back Cover:
A Band of Colour Wash 1840
D41534
Watercolour on white wove paper, 220 x 320 mm
Inscribed on printed label ‘ROBERSON & MILLER, | 51, Long Acre, | LONDON.’ bottom right, upside down
Inscribed in pencil by ?John Ruskin ‘J R 4[?6]’ and ‘[?a/p]’ towards bottom right, upside down
Along the bottom edge towards the right is a 4 mm band of grey watercolour wash, inadvertently carried over from the water in the foreground of one of the Venice subjects formerly bound in the sketchbook (see the Introduction).
Technical notes:
This is the only instance in the Turner Bequest of a Roberson and Miller suppliers’ label (see the technical notes in the sketchbook’s Introduction).
A small, irregular brown mark at the foot of the gutter appears to be a stain rather than watercolour, and continues inside the front cover (D41533). There are other speckled marks and minor stains. The continuous white paper paste-downs are laminated to the sketchbook’s marbled paper outer covers, which lack any drawings or inscriptions by Turner and are thus without Tate accession numbers. D41533 is watermarked ‘J Whatman | 1834’.

Matthew Imms
September 2018

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Band of Colour Wash 1840 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2018, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2019, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-band-of-colour-wash-r1196827, accessed 25 August 2024.